The New York Times is now reporting former FBI Chief Legal Counsel James Baker has resigned from the FBI. This follows a similar announcement for Lisa Page.

James Baker and Lisa Page were part of the “fab five” (Baker, Page, Strzok, Ohr, Priestap) previously suspected as cooperating with IG and FBI INSD investigators in exchange for some form of process leniency. James Baker was removed from his position as FBI Chief Legal Counsel on December 21st, 2017. He has been holding down some previously unknown position inside the FBI until today.

WASHINGTON — Two top F.B.I. aides who worked alongside the former director James B. Comey as he navigated one of the most politically tumultuous periods in the bureau’s history resigned on Friday.

One of them, James A. Baker, served as the F.B.I.’s top lawyer until December when he was reassigned as the new director, Christopher A. Wray, began installing his own advisers. Mr. Baker had been investigated by the Justice Department on suspicion of sharing classified information with reporters. He has not been charged.

[…] Mr. Baker said in a telephone interview that he would be joining the Brookings Institution to write for Lawfare, its blog focused on national security law. (read more)

The New York Times (Michael Schmidt) focuses a great deal of energy attaching James Baker’s current perspective to James Comey as opposed to Andrew McCabe. Remember, Schmidt was the leak recipient from Comey via Benjamin Wittes (loyalty articles etc.).

Additionally, Baker going to work for Wittes at Lawfare..

(Hi Ben!)

….indicates he has NOT been granted prosecutorial immunity. If James Baker had immunity as part of his cooperation deal he would not be going to work for Wittes at Lawfare blog.

Additionally x2, this relationship solidifies our previous analysis that the Lawfare group was/is far more involved in the overall conspiracy scheme than all other reporting was highlighting. The Lawfare group were the ‘outside government’ team who were coaching the DOJ/FBI “small group” on how to execute the “Insurance Policy”.

It is transparently obvious from the way this NYT story is framed (Schmidt), that James Baker is seeking to hug up against James Comey for all pending legal issues. This puts Andrew McCabe on the outside of the circled-wagon defenses.

Big news.

Additionally x3, this also indicates the IG report is rapidly moving toward its conclusion, and also indicates that federal prosecutor John Huber is not granting immunity to the cooperating group.

The most interesting people in the ongoing investigation were those principals who clearly were in/around the center of 2015/2016 activity; were caught in 2017, yet remained inside the FBI and DOJ National Security Division (DOJ-NSD) ie. Main Justice.

♦James Baker – The former FBI chief legal counsel and close adviser to FBI Director James Comey. In addition to coordinating the “small group” activity to exonerate Hillary Clinton, Baker was also a recipient for some of the Comey Memos of recent release. This puts Baker in a position to understand the “insurance policy” described by FBI Agent Peter Strzok and FBI Counsel Lisa Page. Additionally, Baker would be able to identify the level of knowledge and participation of Director Comey, and is therefore perhaps the biggest risk to Comey specifically. December 21st, 2017, Baker was removed from any responsibility but remains inside the FBI in some capacity; he was therefore considered a cooperating co-conspirator for the FBI Inspection Division (INSD), IG Horowitz and likely prosecutor Huber.

♦Lisa Page – The former designated counsel from Main Justice assigned to assist Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe. We know from open-sourced information; from her own released text messages; and from congressional releases, that Lisa Page was the person who provided the text messages to INSD and the Inspector General. Page’s account of the media leak instructions she received from McCabe conflicted with her boss, and ultimately led to the proof of McCabe’s false statements. Lisa Page was the connective bridge within the team joining the DOJ-NSD to the FBI operation. Obviously Page and FBI Agent Peter Strzok were working closely at the heart of the “small group” activity. They were the footsoldiers carrying out the orders passed down from Lynch/Yates (DOJ) and Comey/McCabe (FBI). After cooperating with the INSD and IG investigation, Page quit the Mueller team in June of 2017.

So, things im wondering about, with I.G. report. Seems like he’s got to cover the linch call to nypd, telling them to cool it with weiner material; Comey would have given them that.
Is that stuff ever gonna come to lite?
Is he gonna say, in investigating how these clowns white washed Clinton email investigation, also found that SAME people at top of fbi and doj ordered standown on several field office investigations of CF?
And, will WE learn anything new, or will the I.G. report simply bring the public up to speed?
Previous one showed I.G. looking at phone logs, meetings etc.
And whats gonna happen with Rosie? Will the big debate finally be resolved?
Will Huber wait 1-2 weeks, for it to be digested, or start unsealing indictments post haste?
Mueller is TOAST, but how does that play out. The waiting will be delicious agony, watching it play out, simply delicious

Patience, young Jedi. Think logically. Page, Baker, Ohr, Strozk, (and a few others) were all relieved of duty BUT were kept on at some nameless job in the FBI/DOJ. Why?? Because they cut a deal and were giving testimony against the others in return for consideration at sentencing. If they are NOW being fired, it is because the IG got everything he needed from them. To my mind, that is a clear indication that the curtain is rising and the show is about to start. Get your popcorn ready! Remember the old adage “Do you want it done Tuesday or do you want it done RIGHT?”

Madeline, Done fast and done properly seldom go hand in hand. The Dems and deep state have spent years and years putting all this corruption in place. Trump has been in office for 18 months and been actively subverted the entire time. You might want to consider cutting the team a little slack considering the monumental task they are engaged in.

So because some Anon posted on an Anon board on the internet it must be true? This same Anon posted Hillary would be arrested last October. I follow and want to believe just like the rest of you, I just have seen no evidence. Rosey’s quote yesterday “Justice can and will do better” in the future was a definite let down.

If they were not granted immunity, why would they cooperate? I wouldn’t give them the time of day w/o immunity. And any attorney worth his fees would not let his client expose themselves to criminal prosecution w/o some form of immunity or reduced sentence, and it would have to be in writing by the prosecuting attorney.

There is such a thing as forced resignation. It allows the person resigning the option of saving face, rather than to go out the way that McCabe did, who was fired. Many times the directors/general managers, along with someone from the human resources department, will have a resignation letter already prepared for the person they want gone. It’s not unusual to go over the reason or reasons why the employee’s employment can be terminated. Once an employee is presented with that information, most of the time they prefer to go out with some dignity intact, and sign the resignation letter, which is short and sweat, and usually gives no detail as to the reason or reasons for their resignation. It’s good for the employer, especially if it’s a civil service job, because once the employee resigns, they forfeit all rights to request a hearing through a civil service merit system review board.

As for McCabe, because his employment was terminated, he can’t draw early retirement at 50, but he can draw retirement when he reaches the age of 57, the required federal retirement age for law enforcement officers. However, if McCabe is charged and convicted of certain felonies, he could forfeit his retirement pension altogether.

No. The fact that Baker is going to Lawfare shows that he has not been cooperating. He’d be torn to shreds there. The fact that the FBI has not grabbed the two lovebirds personal communications devices shows that the IG report is going to come as a grave disappointment to CTHers. We’ll find out that the Hillary investigation was very difficult but done as well as could be expected in the circumstances. And that the FISA applications were just fine.

The fact that the FBI is happy to give Grassley a middle finger and Rosie is confident about telling Congress to go forth and multiply indicates that there’s no fear of any shoes dropping. And if there were any shoes to drop they’d know because the IG’s staff will be 90% Dems who’d tell them. So this is all going to be swept under the carpet.

Well, Liz, they’re not under arrest because Sessions is obstructing justice. That’s the bottom line. They are not subject to criminal indictment, because the OIG cannot empanel a grand jury or indict anyone – he’s more like an HR Director, exclusively focused on personnel/department policy matters. He can refer them to a US Attorney (or AG) for prosecution, but there is no evidence yet public that he is doing anything beyond the minimal “HR discipline” role of his office. Otherwise, you would see the indictments, you would see “no knock” raids in the middle of the night on their homes, you would hear of that their banking and private social media accounts (e.g. gmail) were seized, and you would see them indicted or pleading out. You would hear of the CRIMINAL investigation because their attorney’s, and witnesses/attorneys interviewed or subpoenaed would talk. Criminal investigations cannot be done in private, not in Washington, D.C. and not when the Federal government is permanently “held” by Democrat partisan civil service employees. Every dang employee at Justice and the FBI, just about, has their own private “journalist” to leak to.

None of that has happened. No criminal investigation is taking place. THESE PEOPLE WEREN’T EVEN FIRED!! At worse, they’ll maybe get the Lois Lerner treatment.

I’m sorry to burst your bubble, and will all due respect to Sundance, nothing’s happening to bring any of the perps to justice, period.

Multiple grand juries are seated, one source is Sara Carter. Horowitz is working alongside Huber, and the Clinton Foundation is being investigated by 5 FBI offices plus a prosecuting attorney in Arkansas.

Do you recall how a former president for eight years stalled ANY investigation or serious inquiry about numerous scandals, including one involving a thing Nixon was almost impeached for (i.e. using the IRS law enforcement against political enemies), by saying simply “I’m sorry, we cannot comment about that at this time, as it is under investigation.”

And they were, too, right up until Obama left office when it all became Hillary’s “all this stuff was investigated and I was exonerated; it’s just political” meme.

Well, there is more evidence that main Justice and the FBI are doing that, than there is that Sessions and his “bulldog” US Attorneys are seriously investigating anything, other than Trump and anyone who ever met/worked for/served/or voted for him.

There CAN BE NO INVESTIGATION if the evidence is not captured, and we found out yesterday, that the most likely damning evidence by Page and Strzok, their private email accounts, was not subpoena’d, and will not be. That evidence at this point is certainly lost, and unrecoverable. GMAIL does not keep private email forever, and absent a court order, can delete and scrub those email accounts. You KNOW that this has been done.

A real investigation results in indictments of “little Indians” like Strzok and Page, in the hope they can be flipped against their bosses, and then against their bosses, to do the same, and thus the investigation, and EVIDENCE COLLECTION expands. We know definitively that this is not happening, so what kind of investigation is possible without it?

Do you understand that the OIG cannot follow any lead outside Justice and the FBI, and that a majority of the suspected “Coup d’atat” occurred outside of Justice? Again, no investigation, no “no knock” middle of the night raids, no subpoena’s, and no indictment means that the evidence trail goes cold. “Sealed indictments” do not result in convictions, plea bargains, or the expansion of the investigation. People who are touched by a “real investigation” talk, i.e. witnesses, people interviewed, they talk and leak like a sieve. There is none of that from Sessions “secret” investigations of Obama, Clapper, Brennen, Powers, Clinton, and so on and so forth. It’s just not happening.

What Sessions and Rosenstein have done via Obstruction of Justice cannot be undone. It’s game over.

1. Horowitz was neutered by Obama and Holder, and worked to restore the powers of OIG. Right?

2. Horowitz has over 1.5 Million, either pages or documents. Evidence??!!

3. Interviews and evidence appears to point to an internal group cooperating with Huber.

4. I agree not going after the gmail account is troubling. But maybe they calculated the time since IG brought on board, it would be moot? Maybe NSA has it?

5. Where are the 45,000 Page-Strzok texts? They gave us 1%!! There are holes! Are they waiting for The Big Ugly?

Maybe they feel they have enough with texts, emails, NSA, and flippers. They’re virtually all government employees! Maybe Sessions figures he can’t win a jury trial in DC, or we’ll get token convictions?

I have asked this question twice, didn’t see an answer. What if we have a mountain of evidence, and Sessions piddles around. Can Trump remove Sessions, bring in some junkyard dog attorney’s, and prosecute the hell out of it? Would Congress stop that?

Wrong. Huber- a Federal PROSECUTOR-working closely with the IG ( and over 500 prosecutors nationwide ) has already empaneled a grand jury and MANY sealed indictments are already in place. The arrests will come once the investigations are complete. Sessions may or may not be a white hat but he has allowed everything to move forward very quickly. 2018 will turn out to be a glorious year. Wait and see what happens by November POTUS’ military parade.

We’ve been hearing those sealed indictments, for a very long time. Yesterday it was announced, the IG report which was to be for release on May 8th, is delayed AGAIN. That is the 6th delay. This time to “follow new leads in the Hillary email”, are they kidding?
IG issued a “criminal referral” for McCabe. Where is the indictment? Oh wait it was handed to the DC US Attorney and not Huber.
Yeah, if you think a DC US Attorney is ever gonna indict a fellow deep state member, I got a bridge to sell you. Everyone knows this, and this is the problem with our legal system, courts in this country, in some areas are out of control, with “unfettered” power and “no oversight”.
Sundance has done an excellent job laying out the facts, but we need a government willing to do the right thing, I just don’t see it.
We also learned Nunes, isn’t reading the documents, but handing them over Gowdy and Goodlatte, who made a secret deal with team deep state. All Nunes said, “we are following procedure….” not the law, but “procedure”. Nunes refused to answer Ingraham questions. Gowdy sold us out a long time ago. Gowdy will spin these documents.

Agreed, just another scandal that will end up on the scandal scrap heap of history, i.e., IRS, Fast & Furious, Benghazi & all the others.
Well, now that we have the IG report, we have already fired or demoted all the bad actors, (and by the way, these things were employment misconduct, not criminal acts), and we have put the IG recommendations in place so this never happens again. Everything is good now.
Indictments? I wouldn’t hold my breath. They are already viewing McCabe’s criminal referral as employee misconduct, not as a crime. They will do the same for the rest of them. They don’t have the guts for the pushback from the deep state, as it will be fierce.

Yep, the Ken Starr investigation took FOUR YEARS to go from a Whitewater investigation with no consequences to lying about a BJ in the Oval Office and the resulting impeachment, but not removal of a term-limited-anyway prez. I see about the same level of consequences or less from this FAR more serious expose’ of deep state criminality. What we have are the two major party branches of the deep state jousting for supremacy in the 2018 and 2020 elections, the Reps still being the lesser of two evils, probably to become even more so with time as the Dem constituency becomes increasingly Marxist/Postmodernist.

Of course, the national political demographics being sent permanently left by imported, rapidly reproducing collectivists who vote 70-80% left will eventually make voting for a Rep at the national level a worthless exercise.

I don’t think you quite know what you are saying. The OIG may have a staff of 500, but that’s not 500 government attorneys. That’s assistant US attorneys, assigned FBI agents, and 90% logistics, from GS3’s to GS16’s, doing all sorts of bureaucratic office work. However, I’ll conceded, he has a large staff. His ENTIRE staff is not working on that investigation. Justice and the FBI are large operations, the OIG rides herd on it, basically an “HR” integrity function, and maybe 10% of it might be involved with the half dozen or so principle suspects.

Huber CERTAINLY DOES NOT have a staff that large, and they are not all attorneys and/or assigned FBI agents. He is also not working exclusively on an investigation, i.e. paired up with the OIG. His office has far greater responsibilities than an FBI/Justice department investigation of a half dozen bad actors in a department of 1000’s.

The arrests will come once the investigations are complete.

Finally, I’ll redirect your attention to my comments throughout this thread. Why do you believe that a super secret investigation will result in no leaks, no subpoenas, no indictments, NO EVIDENCE COLLECTION OR INTERVIEWS OF TARGETS OF INTEREST, OR WITNESSES, and suddenly “shazam”, it all comes out at once. That’s movie stuff you’re thinking off, i.e. “The Sting”, “Oceans Eleven”, etc.. This would be a RICO like investigation. It would build over time, and it would use subpoena’s and indictments to “flip” targets, and find new information and new targets, kind of like what Bob Mueller is doing. This stuff can’t be hidden. People talk.

What is happening is what you actually SEE is happening, not what Sundance (respectfully) or others are hypothesizing. A theory, even an educated guess, is not necessarily reality.

You know what “reality” is? It’s Lois Lerner walking into the sunset with a $170K a year pension for life, it’s the IRS admitting to CRIMINAL “mistakes made”, and it’s no criminal investigation of any of it by Jeff Sessions Justice Department. It’s Rod Rosenstein actively obstructing Justice, slow walking every and any request for information by Congress which might shed light on what happened at Justice and the FBI on Obama’s watch. It’s the full court press to suppress, by Jeff Session’s Justice Department and FBI.

This seems to be the most likely scenario. The fact that we are this far into it and no one has been held accountable is not a good sign for the good guys. It seems like we will see the bare minimum when it comes to accountability. If they could get through this ordeal without any indictments, they would. But they have signaled their willingness to sacrifice McCabe. Maybe if they can slow walk through the midterms, that’s all they’ll need.

I agree, but… if we see a growing trickle into a deluge designed to have greatest impact at election time…. then, we will know it was all timed and stalled for that reason…… if not, then those who we assume are in control are not in control.

I think if the timing does not include numerous arrests by summer, with all the attendant charges being widely disseminated and talked about, that the midterms for the Republicans will not be as good as hoped. You can only string people along for so long…

Who is US Attorney John Huber…
“During his first swearing-in ceremony as a US attorney, Huber was described as a “jock with the soul of a geek,” a protector for others against bullies, and a man who lived by the motto: “Be the hammer, not the nail,” according to The Deseret News”.

I tend to disagree with the assumption that these two individuals didn’t receive immunity.
It is highly likely that because they violated professional ethics they were required to step down/leave at some point and yet in return for their cooperation and resignation, they would receive immunity from prosecution.

They (Page and Baker) will be well taken care of by their friends in the innumerable leftist foundations, think tanks, etc., or by the fellow-travelers in the mainstream media. They will always have a cushy, quasi -prestigious “job” somewhere.

Honestly I’d rather have these people slink off to live out their retirement quietly on their pensions than to take away their pensions and have them go to work for some leftie foundation wreaking havoc on the country behind the scenes. We made a similar mistake in Iraq when we cut off the Baathists by their purse strings and lo and behold they found new employment on the Iranian payroll as the resistance. It would be nice not to make that mistake in our country. I agree in advance that this outcome would be an offense to our sense of justice, but if we can’t hang them all then we need to look for other ways to remove them from the political equation.

Many of these individuals were actually FIRED according to Q. See information drop 1316 and update:https://qanonmap.bitbucket.io/ Post 1316
These apparently were Baker, Page, Carlin, Kortan, Campbell, Laufman, Yates, Brand, McCord, and FORCE is added by the FIRED statement by some of these.

Q mentions fake news, and apparently is referring to media reports that they all resigned.

Q had said justice would come now in this phase. Obviously so much has been going on behind the scenes, and the media will apparently never report the facts, so the Q drops are essential for the true information to get out. Really an antidote to Operation Mockingbird. Those criticising Sessions should withhold their fire. Not everything can be reported at the time, and patience is required. Sundance has been amazing in all of this and I haven’t found another site with the width, breadth and excellence of information/analysis as his site. Thank you, Sundance and your team.

Correct. Kudos and much appreciation to Sundance! And let’s not forget the Q team without whom we would still be in the dark and mightily worried. So let’s continue reading Sundance’s brilliant analysis, following Q, all with a healthy dose of patience and optimism that God has this..and POTUS’ back. Good will triumph over evil. THIS time there’s no doubt.

This is what amazes me: how can anyone who has read Sundance’s meticulous and scrupulous posts NOT be feeling joyful and have hopeful expectation? If it were not for those posts, yes, I would be discouraged and in despair.

But what Sundance demonstrates every single day is the EVIDENCE of the corruption and criminality which has run wild, unchecked, for so long, and that we all “knew” was there.

How is it that I feel comforted and hopefully expectant after reading a Sundance post, and in response to the same post so many people screech and run around hysterically?

What Sundance has been disclosing is so powerful it CANNOT validly or practically be ignored with Trump as President.

It was always impossible to drain the swamp without a lot of stench and ugly slimy creatures running about squealing their terror.

We can all have a default psychological state when it comes to momentous things whose end result and current status is necessarily unknown to us in all its complex detail, but HOPEFULLY EXPECTANT seems to be a reasonable one compared to others.

This is important point we should be raising to the un-initiated who are trying to come to grips with the whole scandal.. When Comey had that one-on-one with Trump, telling him about the dossier and lying about the scope of the investigation, Trump was well aware of the wiretap and the expanding scope of illegal activities against him. Staring into the face of this inconceivable situation, where the number one FBI man is lying to who is going to be his new boss, Trump asks for his loyalty… And can you believe Comey answered he would pledge his “honest loyalty”. In otherwords… no loyalty at all.

“No deals!” can be taken as a good sign. At some point many months ago, these folks could very well have had every one of their wakings hours surveilled in every way possible before they had an inkling of their jeopardy.

not sure if this is the place for this question, but since it’s been talked about (thru Q postings):
I know former presidents receive secret service details to protect them–do other high ranking gov’t officials (like Kerry)?
and since these details are still government employees do they “check in” periodically?
can we keep track of former presidents/officials this way?
I’m just wondering because of the “news” that Obama and the Clintons are traveling the world etc–are we the people footing the bill for their treachery?

Pat, they are working with foreign leaders to subvert the foreign policy of the current administration. This opens them up to fisa3 warrants. And we don’t need a fake dossier to get them. They may know how to work around the surveillance, but be assured they are being watched.

I think Baker may have no deal, since he is headed into the “protective custody” of Lawfare, helping us to understand, coupled with the Dan Jones/DiFi Staffer revelations, that there is certainly a monied group behind this. Obama and even Hillary are just high ranking officers in this Fifth Column. As were the Bushes, by the way. Has to be. The rot is too entrenched, too pervasive to not have been nurtured during Bush The Younger administration. Follow the money.

I keep seeing these trolls slip in this thread yelling loudly about “neo-con” and “9/11 con job” and “US government brought down towers”, which was exactly the meme of the Marxist-Democrat left and other anti-American forces. It’s usually just a 10 word, maybe three line little “blurb”, totally unrelated to the thread’s discussion.

Don’t know why, but somebody want’s to connect all of our legitimate suspicions about an Obama led, post-election coup d’atat against Trump, with Marxist (and fellow travelers) whacked out conspiracy theories about 9/11?

Hmm …. wonder why?

Nothing about the Obama coup d’atat conspiracy had anything to do with “neo con’s”, the “war on terror”, or the US government supposedly imploding the twin towers with explosives to get American to fight the Saudi’s wars. They are different. One is very true, and the other is balony, ZeroHedge Russian agitprop.

Not a troll here OldSalty. Just a truth seeker. I’m all for investigation and prosecution. Of Obama and Hillary and all of the seditionists and treasonous actors. Prosecution to the fullest extent of the law. Preferably under military tribunals. And including freezing and confiscation of all assets connected with fraud and drug trafficking and human rights charges. That said, 9/11 was a total inside job, and Rudy played a role. Was making that comment/connection because he’s backkk….. – just in time to mock SPIT (at a Human Rights Conf no less) on the Iran [NO]deal, and to presage war with another middle east country. But let’s get back to the coup on here… Thanks.

Re: Baker, What was the purpose of ‘cooperating witness’ with no immunity for the last 5 months. Did he spill any beans or they got nothing out of him? Would he go to work for Lawfare after ratting out Comey, maybe Wittes himself, et al? Seems like they got nothing out of him unless it’s on Strzok, McCabe and the other small fish.

Also, wouldn’t ‘cooperating’ with IG mean that Lisa Page turned over her gmail account. Surely (Shirley), IG wouldn’t be so corrupt as not be interested “in all forms of communication” unlike the corrupt FBI former and current.

Baker got the Lois Lerner, H. Clinton, the Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills deals. After all, Huma and Cheryl were lawyers and had “attorney client privilege” and complete immunity, so why shouldn’t Baker get the same. It’s only fair.
/s

However, you’re beginning to see a pattern here, right?
Comey: Out, about, making tons of money, and free as a bird.
Strzok and Page: Free as a bird.
Baker: Free as a bird.
Brennen: Free as a bird
Clapper: Free as a bird
All of Obama’s leakers: Free as a bird

If they haven’t been indicted after 14 months of “investigations”, and were allowed to simply walk away without consequence, or an agreement to support an existing prosecution of other investigation targets, it won’t happen later. Heck, maybe Mueller can even find a use for them in his investgation-leading-to-Trump’s-impeachment-removal-execution-stomping. The more the merrier, when it comes to those hilariously fun leftist coup d’atat’s!

Do not put much hope in Horowitz, a veteran bureaucrat who knows he will have to work in DC for quite a while alongside some of the same people he’s supposedly reporting on. Splitting the difference, hemming and hawing, explaining that on the one hand this but on the other that, those are brain-numbing investigative dead ends that Horowitz is forced to stroll into by very the nature of the bureaucracy.

In fact we have recently been getting some very fishy signals of what’s coming, from Sessions’ ho-hum talk of “disciplinary measures” at the DoJ to Rosenstein’s recital of that old yawner “mistakes have been made.” Sessions and Rosenstein intend to give a few people a stern talking-to, I suspect, and that will be that.

I doubt that even Andrew McCabe will ever be prosecuted. Horowitz’s report described McCabe’s repeated bald-faced lying under oath as someone “lacking in candor.” Uh-huh. A murder victim lacks a heartbeat; so, alà Horowitz’s office, that’s all that needs saying. It’s grotesque

The un-redacted report just released will not affect Comey much at all. He has served his purpose and will be promptly ignored, if not forgotten, by the media as from now. Had the report come out before Comey’s interview marathon, he would have been damaged. Rosenstein delayed release, knowing how media spin operates, until afterwards. James Comey deals in in the sort of relentless, indefatigable double-talk that IGs like Horowitz always take seriously because it is politically and professionally impossible for them not to. Comey will be scolded for “poor judgment,” given the benefit of the doubt, and walk.

People have figured out that Mueller and Rosenstein have been hiding the ball of what exactly Mueller’s authority as special council is.

A Special Council cannot — by law — use a Title 1 FISA counter intelligence warrant for criminal trials against citizens.

Sundance — and the Russians — have both figured this out and are attacking this Achilles heal of Mueller’s S.C. authority.

It is beginning to look like the DoJ National Security Division under AG Holder and FBI Counter-Intelligence under then FBI Director Mueller decided to simply decided to abolish — De Facto but not De Jure — that legal barrier totally in order to become Obama’s secret police for the totality of his Administration, and that is why DoJ IG Horowitz was locked out of the DoJ NSD by AG Holder.

*THAT* is why this Russia Collusion/Impeachment Coup by Lawfare was put together.

The DoJ “Parallel construction” regime was invented to hide the systematic and illegal use of FISA surveillance for internal surveillance of the Obama Regime’s political opponents to increase the Regime’s domestic power.

This power was used in 2016, definitely was used in 2012 and the idea that Obama was “Selected not elected” by the Deep State in 2008 is definitely on the table.

“The DoJ ‘Parallel construction’ regime was invented to hide the systematic and illegal use of FISA surveillance for internal surveillance of the Obama Regime’s political opponents to increase the Regime’s domestic power.”

That’s been Dan Bongino’s very well documented conclusion for quite some time.

Right you are. If this were Obama’s Justice Department and “Lawfare” was a conservative BLOG, there’d already have been a no-knock, 4AM invasion of their offices, their hotels, their homes, their health spa’s, their kids schools, their kids’ teacher’s homes, and etc. Then they’d really start the destroying of the BLOG’s writer’s lives.

Heck, it’s probably happen now under Sessions, except once again, Lawfare is not a conservative BLOG.

There’s “Equal justice under the law” somewhere in the world, but not in Washington, DC, USA.

4) Indicted Russians, who many thought would never reply, hire an accomplished, seasoned attorney who gobsmacked the FBI in 2012 via the Africa Sting. Massive case crumbled like a house of cards. 2nd chair held by an electronics evidence expert. Ouch.

Kerry talking to the Iranians? Did the President change his e-mail address? He hasn’t replied to my last several. Would someone please forward my message to him: “Please Mr. President – waltz into one of the WH Press Briefings, look straight right into the cameras and say something similar to ‘This message is for former SOS Kerry, employees of the State Department, former Presidents, Presidential candidates and world leaders. There is one Secretary of State and Mr. Kerry is not it. My name is Donald J. Trump. I am the ONLY President of the United States of America – don’t forget it. There will be no further discussion or questions. Have a nice day.’